The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-10
COMMENT AND OPINION.

ONE of the need of the period is an S. P. c. r.
"a society for the prevention of cruelty to trav
elers. Philadelphia Record.
If charity covereth multitude of sins it
might be we'll to purchase some of it for the use
of the balet.-New Haven News.
THE interstatocommerce bill is the longest
stride toward paternal government ever taken in
this country National Republican.
PRETTY soon the workingmen who do not be-
long to labor organizations will have TO organize
| in self-defense. philadelphia Inquirer.
Mr. CLEVELAND, it is said, cannot remem Der
names; but doubt if it requires. any great
mental effort to recall the cognomen of the Gov
ernor of New York. -Pittsburg Chronicle.
COLONEL WATTERsoN is not getting any pie, 4"
says the observant Philadelphia Press. But
Colonel Watterson is patriot. and patriots
do not care for pie.-St. Louis Republican Dem
THE silence or faint praise as to the Presidents
signature of the Interstate commerce bill, the
part of our Democratic contemporaries ought to
be suggestive to Mr.. Cleveland.-New York
| Mail and Express.
THOSE who feel disposed to sympathize with
/! DR.. McGlynn in his fight against the Pope will
| have to accept the issue upon which the fight is
made-the abolition Of private property.
| lanta Constitution.
| THE Republicans lost the Indiana senatorship
| by an untimeiy weakening. We hope that the
| New Jersey contest will not prove to be lost
/ through the same lack of nerve and PERSISTENCE
| philadelphia Press.
| THERE can be no doubt that the election of
/ Turpie by the Indiana Legislature was secured
| by corrupt nneans, and we shall DO very much
/ surprised if he gets seat IN the United States
/ Senate-Denver Republican
| II every successful striker--every successful
] one. mind you-would keep an expense account,
! showing how much be has made by striking and
| how much he would have made without it. for
one year. he would never strike again.-Phila
delphia Inquirer.
THERE are two classes Of delegates con-
nected with the knights OF Labor who do a erea
deal of harm to the order--the Jaw smith o.
the talking delegate, and the lee-smith, or walk
| ing delegate. Both should be abolished st
Louis Globe Democrat
THERE is great deal Of money in the coun
| try. certainly but there is great deal OF wealth
| in the country to be represented by money also
| and there is record in history of country be
ing EN- barrassed by an abundance Of GOOD money
i st. Louis Republican.
THE Dow liquor law in Ohio operates so wei
IL closing dsrepuabe saloons and controlling
! the traffic that a movement is already afoot t.
amend the life out of it. The measure seems
TO be altogether too effective to last long in {
State like Ohio -Philadelpha Press.
AS usual the Democrats in Indiana have
emptied The State treasury and there is nj
money with which to pay the per diem of mem
| bers OF the Legislature. Indiana's share of the
direct tax" would be godsend to the Hoosiel
Democracy just now.-Chicago Journal.
| LET Congress face the music and enact
simple law that every man who served in thu
army and navy shall receive pension on thu
production of his honorable discharge. Under
such a law the whole costly machinery of tn,
Pension Bureau, with its examiners. spies and
army OF clerks, can be abolished. The honora